Difference between Wax Figure and Waxwork

WAX FIGURE vs WAXWORK: NOUN

A figure made of wax, especially an effigy of a famous person.
An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.
Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
The climbing bitter-sweet, Celastrus scandens: so named on account of the waxy scarlet aril of the fruit. See Celastrus and skiff-tree. Also called Roxbury wax-work.
Plural A place where a collection of such figures is exhibited.
Work in wax; especially, figures or ornaments made of wax; in ordinary usage, figures, as of real persons, usually of life-size, and more or less of deceptive resemblance, the heads, hands, etc., being in wax, and the rest of the figure so set up and clothed as to increase the imitative effect.
An exhibition of wax figures in a museum.
A figure made of wax, especially a life-size wax effigy of a famous person.
The art of modeling in wax.
Twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
An effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax

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Plaster cast, Doll, Lookalike, Statue, Mannequin, Lifesize, Tussauds, Madame tussaud, Bittersweet, Staff vine, American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, Climbing bittersweet, False bittersweet, Wax figure

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Wax, Peroxide blonde, Maquette, Replica, Animatronic, Lookalikes, Wax museum, Waxworker, Doll, Lookalike, Statue, Mannequin, Lifesize, Bittersweet, Wax figure

Santa Claus, a wax figure of me, and a bad green fur monster.
The sculptor can then add details to the wax figure.
Fergie linked arms with her wax figure after it was unveiled at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas.
Helen Mirren gave herself a peck on the cheek when her wax figure was unveiled.
Australian singer gives a kiss to his wax figure at Madame Tussauds in Orlando.
Apart from the picture you could make out a wax figure of him.
Madame Tussauds New York unveiled the wax figure of singer Selena on Friday.
New to the festival this year was a Selena wax figure.
One Direction Wax Figure Update: Check Out the Sculptures!
Myrtle Beach is home to the Hollywood Wax Museum where you can explore and take pictures with some famous wax figure stars.

According to Madame Tussauds, the waxwork had her mother's "signature pouty lips and delicate features" and "would be displayed in an "African-themed nursery".
Why else does he choose to look like a Willy Wonka waxwork melted into Roseanne Barr?